EDIT: The Post-it notes have sadly been discontinued. Maybe you can still find some secondhand. This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. Last weekend I went to the Language Show to attend some seminars, meet other language teachers … Read more
I came across this lovely website the other day, the Beethoven Haus für Kinder . It is originally aimed at German children who want to find out more about Beethoven, but actually it’s just as good for adults. I’ve just spent an hour looking around and clicking on various items on the screen and reading interesting snippets. … Read more
In autumn lots of people think they would like to do some evening classes, get fit again, join the gym or learn something new, maybe a new language, maybe German. So they look around to see what’s available and then find they can’t decide: What shall I do, keep fit or learn German? Why not … Read more
In one of this week’s lessons, I let my students listen to a story about two frogs in a milk jug (from a lovely book of fables which I bought in Vienna two years ago and which came with a CD). Today I found the text online so that you can have a read: … Read more
The Goethe-Institut has published a new free online resource for learning German, called Unsere Straße (Our street). EDIT 2026: It seems they have taken it down as the links now take you to a ‘page not found’ page. I’ll wait for a while before deleting this post just to see whether they have just moved the … Read more
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to attend a German church service? I found a website where you can do just that, without having to leave your house. The service is not from the church in the picture, that is the St. Steven’s Cathedral in Passau, but from a small church in … Read more
Evernote is a lovely tool which you can have on your PC and/ or laptop as and also on your smartphone. It works like a word document but does do much more – and it’s free! So, how can Evernote help you learn German? When you learn German (or any other language), there are four skills … Read more
My students often ask me how they can improve their German listening skills at home without having to listen to the same exercises from the lessons. One fantastic way – especially, if you like music – is lyrics training. The site has mainly English songs, but the amount of German songs is also growing. I … Read more
This German idiom ‘wo sich Fuchs und Hase gute Nacht sagen’ has been written especially for Vicky, who said, she lived there 😉 Wo sich fuchs und hase gute nacht sagen from Angelika Davey EDIT: If you don’t want to click the slides, you can now also watch it as a video:
While going for a long walk the other day I suddenly had the idea of introducing German idioms with photos. As I had already taking quite a few pictures that day, the first idiom was an easy choice. Have a look: I thought this is a good example for idioms. Although this time the … Read more
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